Around the beginning of this millennia I was introduced by a friend to an amazing publicity campaing for BMW called The Hire, featuring Clive Owen. I guess my movie appreciation skills weren’t as refined as I think they are now, but these short features stuck with me. And I’m proud of it.
While watching TV just now I came across SAPO’s new Internet service campaign, and it puzzled me how is it possible that a major portuguese technology company spends their money on creative teams that don’t even have the credit to be called creative. Please, judge it yourselves.
Thank you Kitsune, for giving me wonderful pointers such as this one.
Play Me I’m Yours is an amazing project by artist Luke Jerram in which pianos are spread throughout urban spaces inviting each person to hang around, play some music, hear others play and just have fun.
Começou ontem época de exames nacionais, com teste de Português, considerado por todos muito fácil. Professores dizem que notas vão subir e, com elas, resultados escolares vão-se aproximar das médias europeias. Estratégia que, dizem, tem vindo a ser seguida pelo Ministério. Em ano eleitoral, alunos salientam necessidade de melhorar as estatísticas.
This is a very simple Growl theme based on the Helvetica font and it is supposed to be used on the bottom left corner. You can find it on the same repository, and you can download it here. Here’s a screenie:
I found that GrowlTunes, the application that notifies Growl whenever iTunes changes status, outputed just too much information; so I did a little script just to output the ‘title’, ‘artist’ and ‘album’ of the current playing song.
growl4itunes
You can find this script under the homonimous folder in my Green Apples repository. Or you can read it here:
#!/usr/bin/env python
from popen2 import popen2
from time import sleep
PERIOD = 5
data = None
while True:
o, i = popen2("osascript -e 'tell application \"iTunes\" to if player state is playing then name of current track & \"\n\" & artist of current track & \"\n\" & album of current track'")
newdata = o.readlines()
if data != newdata:
data = newdata
try:
popen2("growlnotify -m \"" + data[1] + data[2] + "\" -t \"" + data[0] + "\"")
except:
pass
sleep(PERIOD)
Talent must be a fanatical mistress. She’s beautiful; when you’re with her, people watch you, they notice. But she bangs on your door at odd hours, and she dissapears for long stretches, and she has no patience for the rest of your existence: your wife, your children, your friends. She is the most thrilling evening of your week, but some day she will leave you for good. One night, after she’s been gone for years, you will see her on the arm of a younger man, and she will pretend not to recognize you.
